Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attempting to tighten discipline and doctrine on what he saw as a drifting ship, Preus cracked down. His main targets were faculty members of the denomination's major academic arm, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. These teachers, who in the ensuing debate styled themselves moderates, take a less rigid view of the Bible, accepting modern interpretation that explains the story of Adam and Eve, for instance, less as history than myth. In 1974 Preus won the ouster of the seminary's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, on charges of fostering "false doctrine." Supporting Tietjen, the majority...
...make for some very sloppy law," says Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther. "But in the long run I think it is a healthy sign, because it reflects the fact that some judges are engaged in a serious effort to rethink difficult problems. You need a breaking up of rigid lines before you can come up with a coherent set of rules for new questions...
...answer is that private businessmen must decide but Government can do more to help them. It should do so not by setting up rigid five-year plans, but by employing the best of its fallible methods to give early warnings of what raw materials and investments will be most needed...
...reform their party before the next national election; the job may be difficult since the party has its own right-center-left factions, which constantly disagree. Leftists last week demanded Fanfani's resignation as a cure. One reformation might be to give his job to a younger, less rigid man like Defense Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a centrist more palatable to the left...
...because of strong national sentiment but rather because of a host of other factors: the extended British lines, the aid of the French, the unorthodox modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that the Americans...